The Grand Challenges Discourse: Transforming Identity Work in Science and Science Policy

Kaldewey, David

doi:10.1007/s11024-017-9332-2

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“…Therefore, organizations have to solve several consecutive problems, beginning by the need to pick problems to work on. We may conceive of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a globalized first step of re-specification, thereby offering other organizations a frame for deciding on further steps (Ferraro, Etzion et al, 2015;George, Howard-Grenville et al, 2016;Kaldewey, 2017).…”

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Changing the World by Changing Forms? How Philanthrocapitalist Organizations Tackle Grand Challenges

Mölders¹

2020

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Can and should the superrich save the world? While this is a highly contested issue, attention is predominantly paid to individual philanthrocapitalists, such as Bill and Melinda Gates, Michael Bloomberg, Pierre Omidyar, George Soros, Elon Musk, or Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg and their visions. This paper conceives of such visions as raw material which is refined within philanthrocapitalist organizations. Traditionally, such organizations took the form of a tax-exempt foundation, a 501(c) organization. There seems to be a recent trend towards organizing as an LLC, thereby losing tax exemption. That an LLC is allowed to invest and earn money, does not fully explain this shift. Instead, the thesis is put forward that it is not all about money but that an LLC offers opportunities to solve problems such organizations typically face when tackling grand challenges: 1) making addressees use solutions (properly) and 2) scaling them. One solution (the Public Safety Assessment) from one organization (Arnold Ventures LLC) illustrates that philanthrocapitalist LLCs do not just execute their founder’s wills but translate visions into strategies to reach what money (alone) cannot buy and technology (alone) cannot operate – and what an LLC is needed for.

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Changing the World by Changing Forms? How Philanthrocapitalist Organizations Tackle Grand Challenges

Mölders¹

2020

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“…Mission-oriented policies originally emerged as a technology policy concept implemented to support governmental goals of national importance. Often recalled historical examples of science-or technology-led missions are the Manhattan project, or the U.S. Apollo project putting a man on the moon (Hicks 2016;Mazzucato 2017;Kaldewey 2018). This classical mission-orientation was motivated primarily by political ambitions more than economic competitiveness.…”

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A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy: Alternative pathways through the problem-solution space

Wanzenböck¹,

Wesseling²,

Frenken³

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We aim for a better conceptualization of Mission-oriented Innovation Policy (MIP). Our starting point is an analytical decomposition of societal problems and innovative solutions based on the degrees of wickedness regarding three aspects: i) contestation, ii) complexity and iii) uncertainty. We argue that both problems and solutions can be diverging (contested, complex, uncertain) or converging (uncontested, well-defined, informed). Based on the resulting problem-solution topology, we suggest a process-oriented view on MIP and discuss three alternative pathways along which convergence between problems and solutions can be achieved to transform wicked problems into legitimate solutions. We illustrate the pathways with the examples of smoking bans, CCTV and wind energy. For policy makers, locating a societal challenge in this problem-solution space, and implementing policy strategies accordingly, is expected to accelerate both the legitimacy of a mission and the resulting solutions.

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“…One reason for this is the cumulative knowledge on negative impacts of climate change and environmental crises (http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/). Kaldeway (2018) notes that "grand challenges" have become a dominant theme in scientific discussions and policymakers' funding schemes in the twentyfirst century. Many funding mechanisms tend to connect these targets with resources (see e.g.…”

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Responsible University: In Search of HR and Leadership Solutions

Kekäle

Varis

2019

The Responsible University

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We define a responsible university here as an institution that carries out quality research and teaching that responds to the needs of society and aims at solving certain global problems of humankind, while venerating the fundamental freedom of science. Especially researchers are crucial for accomplishment of these goals. By describing development projects at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), we focus on how a university can foster strategic aims towards solving global problems, while becoming more responsible in the process by the means of HR measures. The chapter describes HR ideas found in the course of the iterative and interactive development of leadership and recruitment processes. We present a model that sheds light on key issues in leadership and recruitment in the aim of becoming a responsible university. The model also draws together the outcomes of the development projects described. The model was discussed with, and was approved by, the academic leaders at the UEF.

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The Grand Challenges Discourse: Transforming Identity Work in Science and Science Policy

Cited by 91 publications

References 65 publications

Changing the World by Changing Forms? How Philanthrocapitalist Organizations Tackle Grand Challenges

Changing the World by Changing Forms? How Philanthrocapitalist Organizations Tackle Grand Challenges

A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy: Alternative pathways through the problem-solution space

Responsible University: In Search of HR and Leadership Solutions

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